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The sources of protectionist drift in representative democracies

Laussel, Didier; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2001

We analyze a two country-two good model of international trade in which citizens in each country differ by their specific factor endowments. The trade policy in each country is set by the politician who has been elected by the citizens in a previous stage. Due to a delegation effect citizens...

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Policy and politics : trade adjustment assistance in the crossfire

Laincz, Christopher A.; Matschke, Xenia; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2016

The United States introduced Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) as part of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act to dampen the adverse impact of increased trade on workers. Applications to receive TAA require approval from the Department of Labor. Guided by the technical criteria used by the U.S....

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Corruption and Trade Protection : Evidence from Panel Data

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2007

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of corruption and poor institutions on trade protection. It exploits data on several measures of trade protection including import duty, international trade taxes, and the trade-GDP ratio. The paper complements the literature on the relationship...

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Democracy and Trade Policy : The Role of Interest Groups

Lee, Kyunghee - 2014

As a democracy develops and matures, the number of interest groups attempting to voice their interests with respect to trade policies tends to increase, and sometimes governments collide with them in the process of enacting restraints. This paper aims to investigate empirically the role of...

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Microfoundations of Influencing Public Opinion : Lobbying and Voting for Trade Policies

Pyne, Derek - 2014

Public opinion, lobbying and elections have important effects on the formation of trade policy in democracies. This … paper attempts to explain how lobbying expenditures can influence the outcome of an election fought over trade policy …

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Are Antidumping Duties for Sale? Case-Level Evidence on the Grossman-Helpman Protection for Sale Model

Evans, Carolyn L. - 2013

As successive rounds of global trade liberalization have lowered broad industry-level tariffs, antidumping duties have emerged as a WTO-consistent means of protecting certain industries. We construct a new dataset linking anti-dumping-case outcomes to political donations byt he politcal action...

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Join hands or walk alone? : evidence on lobbying for trade policy in India

Saha, Amrita - 2017

Using primary evidence for 146 Indian manufacturing firms, I examine the types of lobbying strategies for trade policy … individually as a single firm (Walk Alone), or adopt a dual lobbying strategy that is a unique combination of collective and … individual lobbying. The findings are a first for India, and suggest the following: First, Indian manufacturing firms join hands …

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Explaining the Role of Interest Groups in United States Trade Policy

Deardorff, Alan V.; Hall, Richard L. - 2008

This paper provides an alternative analytical view of the mechanism by which interest groups influence trade policy. In contrast to other economic models in which trade policy is essentially "bought" by industrial interests, this model views interest groups and legislators as possibly sharing...

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Constituent Interest Group Influences on U.S. Trade Policies Since the Advent of the WTO

Stern, Robert M. - 1998

This paper assesses the major developments in U.S. trade policies since the creation of the WTO in 1995. It is based in large measure on the fourth biannual (1996) WTO Trade Policy Review of the United States and updated through 1997. The discussion and assessments include in particular: the...

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Protection for Sale in the EU

Belloc, Marianna - 2007

This paper presents estimation of the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model for the EU. We try to address a number of pitfalls that surround the previous empirical literature. First, we suggest a new identification strategy that enables to single out politically organized sectors with specific regard to...

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